I finally found out the name of the track that starts at 1.10! It's called 'Optical', composed by Paul Reeves and is in his APM Music album Life in Motion. Gosh, I've been trying to find this track since 2009, and I know I'm not the only one. Everyone upvote this comment so other searchers can find it!
I love his excitement/curiosity approach to his presenting. He is so inspiring and makes the programme so much more engaging! From someone who was always a bit scared of Physics or Science in general, Brian Cox has me totally captivated. Definitely an achievement and has renewed my interest and I know that there are plenty of others who feel the same way! What a great show!
Quite possibly the best science based programme I have ever seen. I sit mesmerised every Sunday in sheer awe at what I am being taught: what I wish I had learnt whilst I was at school. Prof Brian Cox presents like a giddy school boy who's just bought his first home science kit. I challenge anyone to sit and watch this programme and not be completely and utterly enthralled. I encourage everyone to watch and gain a greater appreciation of who we are and why we're here. Just brilliant.
Wonderful! Can't wait for 9p.m tonight. Your enthusiasm really conveys the wonderment of our solar system. Tempted to get BBC HD just for this programme, hopefully tho there will be a blu ray. Truly wonderful
First time I saw this guy. Absolutely explains things in REAL terms....Also no animation..or little of it..Dr Cox brings the video from the source right to us and lays the story and facts out on the table so I know what is what as I scarf it all up!!!! Thank you Dr Brian Cox!! Thank you very much! (Setting up me scope right now!
I watched this last night, even being familiar to Brians's discussion, there were so many little pieces I was not aware of. That is what Brian Cox does, never misses.
I've been interested in Titan ever since I saw the scene in Gattica way back in 1997 "or so" where Ethan Hawke demonstrates the mystery of Titan's surface by blowing his cigarette smoke into his drinking glass. Not since Carl Sagan's time has anyone been able to captivate me with fascinating stories of astrophysics quite like Brian Cox.
Awesome, spellbinding series about, well us and what utterly amazing animals we are, hope that we can evolve further and how little we are in the scale of the cosmos - and presumably other singularities yet to occur... Bit of quantum next please Brian. Well done to Brian, taxpayers and the BBC. And thanks meditation for helping me accept (still trying!) the reality of all this. Gosh, pour me a stiff one...wow.
My most recent purchase of the fantastic BBC Blue Ray documentaries and I agree on all the compliments of the other commentators. Looks breathtaking on a large LED LCD.
Our earth really is special and one of a kind in the universe, its our precious jewel and we need to nurture and protect it from harms way we cant(i meant) afford to lose Earth for our future generations let them enjoy what we are during this age of stars
They are lakes of methane. As he mentioned, Earth's atmosphere allows water to exist in liquid, solid, and gas forms. Titan's atmosphere allows methane to exist in all three forms as well. Titan has methane clouds, that rain methane, forming methane rivers and lakes. Just as water, in it's different forms helps shape/change the landscape on Earth, methane plays a role in shaping the land on Titan.
@TheAlexander356 Since electrons have mass then yes of course gravity can slow them down. However this applies only to electrons in free space. Electrons in an orbit are bound by quantum wells and particular energy states, thus they do not slow down as they "orbit" a nucleus. In fact, they are not really orbitting but in a quantum probability blur around the nucleus. They do not "move" from one energy level to another in a traditional sense but rather jump quantumly. Hope that helps.
Get this into schools, a lot of the videos I saw in high school were from the late 80's early 90's, this is a lot more entertaining and relevant to today's students.
Our earth really is special and one of a kind in the universe, its our precious jewel and we need to nurture and protect it from harms way we can afford to lose Earth for our future generations let them enjoy what we are during this age of stars
I am anxiously awaiting the broadcast of this series in the USA. I have only been able to see a short clip of the five episodes here and there, not much more. Brian Cox is a wonderful presenter and a dedicated physicist and yes he is hot !!!!
@teatime90 Yes, since the crampons are practical equipment, the National Science Foundation's Accounts Payable Department accepts receipts of purchase for reimbursement
I am curious to know is is the vacuum in space constant through out the whole universe ? . I would also like to understand how vacuum effects interacting with mass and gravity .As there is no such thing as stationary given that every thing in the universe moves . So what is the relationship between these forces and could a stationary universe actual exist which I doubt .
ok now i need to ask. is there a big documentary from brian cox and bbc where i can watch all these little 4 minutes video as one big documentary movie?
I'm going to say liquid air... that is nitrogen and oxygen, but I'm not sure about the boiling points of each at the pressure levels of titan. So it would be a guess :)
Although (he's) cut from a different cloth than, Sir David Attenborough, so to speak, Prof. Brian Cox certainly has a way to engage with his audience and we're all the better for it. Viva la Brian. Viva la Physics! And, viva la Sir David A. for arousing interest in our natural world and universe. There are some that would see such programmes as a waste of money but we all know they're full of shit. (I don't have time, 'nor space to explain why)
My favourite wonder of the Universe is... Earth itself. Not a superstar, black hole, or other monster out there. Earth reminds me... a mother, what else is more beatiful than that?
Yeah, you're right. I actually saw a video of Prof. Cox giving a TED Talk, and he recited a Carl Sagan quote that went along with the photo of Earth as a tiny little dot caught in a sunbeam, the furthest picture taken of Earth, and that photo & quote is the log-on screen for my computer! I read it at least once every week,, especially lately (I have the full "speech" on my copy, I think). Although the rings of Saturn are just boggling ... and the colour of Neptune is my all-time favourite shade of blue. Oh, and the sheer size of Jupiter and those storms on it! I haven't watched the Wonders of the Universe yet, I've borrowed it from my local library, just finishing up Solar System first!
@Leofox94 Only genuine smiling has that effect: throw that book on the fire mate, at least it will do some good as heat. Body language books like all selfhelp books will only mess your mind up.
@boabfly I'm lucky, I did. That's why I'm a physics teacher now and I hope that I am as enthusiastic as him and capable of explaining things as well as he does.
I think he was implying if water was present on Titan because the temperature on Titan is well below it's freezing point so at -180 degrees ice would be very very hard indeed, because the temperature on Titan would not be above the melting point of water so it'll just stay hard solid ice.
@mrsabbeylautner It's probable that life exists in one or two other bodies within our solar system and possible 3 or 4 others, although of course very basic. But by the sheer numbers of stars in the Universe, the existance of life more inteligent than us is in my eyes inevitable.
@omarinbox A more real approach? the idea of this program is to get people interested in science..It does a great job.In what way is he getting over exited? Having a passion about science is not a bad thing.
I’m very glad NASA is preparing their “dragonfly” mission to fly like a drone in Titan’s atmosphere in 2034 🤞😄I can’t wait to see what it uncovers! Imo it’s more exciting than James Webb!!!
